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A primer on the 35-hour in France, 1997 - 2007

Askenazy, Philippe - 2008

France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor economics, including work sharing effect on job creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation...

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Short-time work benefits revisited: Some lessons from the Great Recession

Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2011

The Great Recession triggered a resurgence of short-time work (STW) throughout the OECD. Several countries introduced from scratch STW or significantly expanded the scope of the programmes already in place. In some countries like Italy, Japan and Germany between 2.5 and 5 per cent of the...

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On the multivariate analysis of the Lisbon process

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; Bajalan, Chemen S.J. - 2007

Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...

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Instability of the Eurozone? On monetary policy, house prices and labor market reforms

Belke, Ansgar; Gros, Daniel - 2007

This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary …

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Immigration Policy in Integrated National Economies

Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000

Migration is an unavoidable aspect of globalization. While full flexibility is politically unfeasible, the paper argues … for regulated openness. Migration in the age of globalization should be judged according to the labor market needs of the …

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Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001

This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time consistent taxation, similar...

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Globalization and Human Capital Formation

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001

This paper compares education investment in closed and open economies without government and with a benevolent government. The fact that the time consistency problem in taxation can make labor mobility beneficial even if governments are fully benevolent – which is known from other contexts –...

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Measurement of globalization and its variations among countries, regions and over time

Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - 2005

The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the … technological innovation also provides impetus to the progressive integration of the nations. The elements of globalization include … economic benefits, globalization also indicates the flow of ideas, norms, information and peoples. There is a large …

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How do trade and financial integration affect the relationship between growth and volatility?

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - 2006

context of globalization a term typically used to describe the phenomenon of growing international trade and financial …

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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - 2007

recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the … development in a number area where similar trends are observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and …

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